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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Henry Fielding

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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Determination Evil Goodness Judgement Praise
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Creation Fools Tax
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
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Dance Greatness Parents Stupidity Warm Weakness
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Media News Value Word Worth
O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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Beautiful Display Fear Friendship Glory Happiness Innocence Light Powerful Strong Transcendence
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Friendship Happiness Leadership
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
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Goodness Sick Success
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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Animal Drink Man Teaching Thirst
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Disguise Ourselves Vice Virtue
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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Couple Fools Marriage Oneself
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Demand Forgiveness Friendship Hope Kind Mistake Myself See
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Bad Change Easy Goodness Man Transformation Wisdom
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Capacity Necessary Novel Romance
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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Cheap Price Rate Talent Virtue Wisdom
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Beautiful See
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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Action Appearance Care Design Enough Goodness

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